Henhouse Prowlers with Blue Caboose

Thursday • Stanley’s Pub

Chicago is the home base of the Henhouse Prowlers, a groupwith
a modern outlook when it comes to Bluegrass, injecting an open-minded
approach into many of their tunes while still ripping a traditional
groove on others. The group’s latest album is called Breaking Ground, produced by Chi-town Bluegrass legend Greg Cahill.

The Prowlers are made up of Ben Wright on
banjo, Jon Goldfine on bass, Dan Andree on fiddle and Milwaukee native
Starr Moss on guitar.

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Like a lot of younger bands, they came to
Bluegrass later in life. Wright bought a banjo at 23 out of the blue and
fell in love with it. Andree has a degree in Ethnomusicology and grew
up learning the Suzuki violin method before making the turn to fiddle.
Goldfine played the tuba, electric bass and harmonica as a kid while
under the tutelage of musician parents. And Moss was an electric
guitarist before he discovered Bluegrass and Celtic music in high
school.

Because of their belief in the power of
music education, the Prowlers have developed a Bluegrass Music in the
Schools curriculum that they have performed for students in Illinois,
and they also just returned from Africa where they toured with the U.S.
State Department’s American Music Abroad program.